Views

ou can retrieve the listing of views from the Views schema collection.

Retrieving the View Listing

To retrieve the Views schema collection, call the GetSchema method of the CompositeConnection class, as shown in the following examples.

C#

String connectionString = "Host=myHost;Domain=myDomain;DataSource=myDataSource;User=myUser;Password=myPassword";

using (CompositeConnection conn = new CompositeConnection(connectionString)) {

  conn.Open();

  DataTable databaseSchema = conn.GetSchema("Views");

  foreach (DataRow row in databaseSchema.Rows) {

    Console.WriteLine(row["TABLE_NAME"]);

  }

}

VB.NET

Dim connectionString As String = "Host=myHost;Domain=myDomain;DataSource=myDataSource;User=myUser;Password=myPassword"

Using conn As New CompositeConnection(connectionString)

  conn.Open()

  Dim databaseSchema As DataTable = conn.GetSchema("Views")

  For Each row As DataRow In databaseSchema.Rows

    Console.WriteLine(row("TABLE_NAME"))

  Next

End Using

Columns Returned

The Views schema collection returns the following columns:

Column Name	Data Type	Description
TABLE_CATALOG	System.String	The database that contains the view.
TABLE_SCHEMA	System.String	The schema that contains the view.
TABLE_NAME	System.String	The view name.
CHECK_OPTION	System.String	Whether the view was created using WITH CHECK OPTION.
IS_UPDATEABLE	System.String	Whether the view is updateable.